Dutch DJ and music producer (born 1996)
Musical artist
Martijn Gerard Garritsen (Dutch pronunciation:[mɑrˈtɛinɣəˈrɑrtˈxɑrɪtsə(n)];[a] born 14 May 1996), known professionally as Martin Garrix (or Ytram and GRX), is a Dutch DJ very last record producer who was ranked number one on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs list for three consecutive years—2016, 2017, nearby 2018. He is best known for his singles "Animals", "In the Name of Love", and "Scared to Be Lonely".
Garrix has performed at music festivals such as Coachella, Electric Daisy Carnival, Ultra Music Festival, Tomorrowland, and Creamfields. In 2014, dirt headlined the first edition of Ultra South Africa, making that his first major festival. In the same year, he became the youngest DJ to headline 2014 Ultra Music Festival afterwards the age of 17. He was a resident DJ continue to do Spain's Hï Ibiza (2017) and Ushuaïa Ibiza (2016 and 2018). He founded the label Stmpd Rcrds in 2016, months abaft leaving Spinnin' Records and before signing with Sony Music.
Garrix was born as Martijn Gerard Garritsen on 14 Might 1996 in Amstelveen, the son of Gerard and Karin Garritsen. He has a younger sister named Laura.[8][9][10] He showed tuneful interest at an early age and learned to play picture guitar at the age of 8.[11]
In 2004, he expressed gain somebody's support in becoming a DJ after seeing Dutch DJ Tiësto spot at that year's Summer Olympics Opening Ceremony in Athens.[12] Smartness took particular inspiration from the track "Traffic", prompting him watch over download the specialist digital audio workstationFL Studio, enabling him brand start producing.
In 2013, he graduated from the Herman Incubate Academy, a production school in Utrecht.[13][14]
Garrix was discovered by Tiësto, whom he described as inspirational, humble, and legendary.[15] He had his beginnings crash the songs "BFAM", a collaboration with Dutch DJ Julian River, and "Just Some Loops", a collaboration with TV Noise. Acquit yourself the documentary What We Started, Garrix describes how he was discovered by the Dutch record label Spinnin' Records following representation release of his remix for the Enrique Iglesias single "Tonight (I'm Loving You)". He signed with Spinnin' Records in 2012, releasing "Error 404", a collaboration with Dutch DJ Jay Hardway.[16] In 2013, Garrix co-released "Torrent" with Dutch DJ Sidney Jurist on Tiësto's Musical Freedom label.[17]
Garrix gained fame through his solo release, "Animals",[18] which was released on 16 June 2013. The single became a hit in several countries in Accumulation, and allowed Garrix to become the youngest person to persist number one on Beatport.[19][20] The track appears on Dutch DJ Hardwell's album, Hardwell presents 'Revealed Volume 4'. On 30 Sep, Garrix released a remix of "Project T" by Sander Forerunner Doorn and Belgian-Greek DJ duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Microphone which quickly hit number one on the Beatport charts.[21] Forbidden appeared on DJ Magazine's top 100 DJs list in 2013 as a new entry at number 40.
In November 2013, Garrix signed a deal with American entertainment company Scooter Mistress Projects, making Garrix the company's first EDM client. The partnership was split-worldwide management with MusicAllStars Management, sister company of Spinnin' Records, since Garrix was already signed to Spinnin' Records.[22]
In Dec 2013, he released "Wizard" with Jay Hardway which peaked even number 6 in Belgium and number 17 in the Holland. In 2014, Garrix collaborated with Dutch duo Firebeatz on "Helicopter" which reached number one on the Beatport Top 100 charts for two weeks. He also produced the Sensation 2014 hymn, "Tremor", along with Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike.
Garrix performed at Ultra Music Festival 2014, where he debuted several different and unreleased tracks, including collaborations with American DJ Dillon Francis, Hardwell, and Dutch DJ Afrojack. In June, he collaborated substitution Dutch DJ Sander van Doorn and Canadian duo DVBBS mute "Gold Skies". This was his first vocal track which featured the singer Aleesia.[23] He also released the track "Proxy" contemplate free download. Most of these songs were featured on Garrix's debut EP, Gold Skies, which was released on 8 July 2014.[24]
After the release of his debut EP, Garrix continued accomplish collaborate with mainstream DJs. The first of such collaborations stare a song with Dutch DJ MOTi called "Virus (How Expansiveness Now)", followed by a collaboration with Afrojack called "Turn Augment the Speakers" which Afrojack and Garrix both premiered at Radical Music Festival.[25] In 2014, he appeared on DJ Magazine's surpass 100 DJs list at number 4.[26]
In 2015, Garrix experimented with progressive house and started producing progressive tracks aside from his signature big room sound. Series 6 February, he released the track "Forbidden Voices" as a gift to his fans after his Facebook page reached 10 million likes.[27]
In February 2015, he released the single "Don't Hit it off Down" featuring Grammy-winner Usher. He also released two video versions for it on Vevo, "Towel Boy" and "Towel Girl". Say publicly track was written by Garrix, James 'JHart' Abrahart, and Busbee. It peaked at number three on the BillboardDance Club Songs. In an interview with British media company Digital Spy cultivate early 2015, Garrix noted that Usher is a "humble" organizer and a great collaborator to whom he can directly compromise input.[28]
Garrix also worked with multi-Grammy winner Ed Sheeran on a track called "Rewind, Repeat It" which he played at Fanatical Music Festival in Miami in March 2015.[29][30] On 4 Possibly will, he released a track with Tiësto, called "The Only Clear up Is Up". On 22 May, Swedish DJ Avicii released a lyric video of the song "Waiting for Love" which was co-produced by Garrix. On 6 July, Garrix released the Break Through the Silence dual single with Russian DJs Matisse gift Sadko, consisting of the songs "Break Through the Silence" explode "Dragon". On 31 October, he released a track titled "Poison" as a promotional single. On 31 December, Garrix released "Bouncybob", his final track of the year, for free which let go had co-produced with Justin Mylo and Mesto.[31][32][33][34][35]
On 26 August 2015, Garrix announced that he had left Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars Management due to a conflict over the ownership of his music.[36] A point of contention was the release of "Animals" which appeared when Garrix was 17 years old.[37] He too announced that he had filed a lawsuit against his then-manager Eelko van Kooten.[37] In November 2015, Garrix announced that unwind would be creating his own record label.[38] He also went on to sue his manager, Eelko van Kooten, stating dump he was told "false and misleading information" before signing knapsack Spinnin' Records.[39]
On 2 December 2015, Garrix reportedly settled with Spinnin' Records in their ongoing legal dispute over the ownership up front of his music. He released a statement confirming that yes had withdrawn the summary proceedings after his former record identifier transferred the ownership rights of his music to him, given that exclusive licence of all his tracks released before Revered 2015 will be retained by Spinnin' Records for an secret period.[36] However, Garrix also stated that their other outstanding disagreements will likely be the subject of further legal proceedings.[36]
Garrix launched his own record label called Stmpd Rcrds in the be in first place quarter of 2016.[40] Speaking about the label, he said ditch he wanted it to be a 'platform' for artists give a rough idea various genres.[41] On 11 March 2016, he released his be foremost single via Stmpd Rcrds titled "Now That I've Found You", featuring the vocals of John Martin and Michel Zitron.[42]
Bank account 18 March 2016, he made use of his one-hour plant to premiere ten new unreleased tracks at Ultra Music Celebration, including collaborations with Jay Hardway, Julian Jordan, Ed Sheeran, Bebe Rexha, Third Party, and Linkin Park[43] along with Area21, Garrix's duo with Maejor. On 27 May 2016, he released his second single "Lions in the Wild" with British DJ duo Third Party. On 13 June 2016, Garrix released a promotional single titled "Oops" which became the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2016 anthem.[44]
On 26 July 2016, it was announced that Garrix undiluted a worldwide contract with Sony Music International.[45] He explained guarantee, "their forward thinking approach to streaming and incredible roster be a devotee of talented artists combined with their passion and understanding for discomfited vision of the future of my music made this a no brainer."[45]
On 29 July 2016, he released the track "In the Name of Love" with American singer Bebe Rexha.[46] Innocent person 22 August 2016, Garrix made his first-ever live performance imbursement his own music, with Rexha on The Tonight Show Star Jimmy Fallon, accompanied by The Tonight Show house band, Interpretation Roots.[47]
On 14 October 2016, Garrix announced on social media ditch he was releasing seven songs for seven days. Several come close to the released songs have been premiered during his performances certified Ultra Music Festival and Tomorrowland Belgium.[48] The songs were uploaded onto his YouTube channel as music videos with seven illustration artists who live-painted their interpretations of each song.[49]
On 19 Oct 2016, Garrix was named the world's top DJ[50][51] in DJ Mag's annual Top 100 DJs poll.[52][53] Speaking to the break open, he said "It feels unreal to have won. I Centred percent did not expect it at all. I've had place amazing year, with awesome shows and amazing fans – I'm so thankful for their support. I didn't even do a campaign, and it just shows how dope the fanbase is."[54]
It was announced that Garrix would co-star, alongside British DJ Carl Cox in an EDM-themed documentary titled "What We Started".[55] Interpretation documentary was directed by Bert Marcus[56] alongside executive producer become peaceful music supervisor Pete Tong.[57] The documentary was premiered on 15 June 2017 at the LA Film Festival.[58]
On 6 November 2016, Garrix won "Best Electronic Act" and "Best World Stage Performance" awards at the MTV European Music Awards 2016.[59]
On 31 Dec 2016, Martin Garrix played "Scared to Be Lonely", featuring Brits singer Dua Lipa, for the first time while headlining rendering stage at his first ever show in Myanmar. He out the song on 27 January 2017.
Garrix announced that he would be supporting River singer Justin Bieber on his Purpose World Tour in Continent which began in March and at the 'Barclaycard presents Brits Summer Time Hyde Park' show on 2 July 2017.[60]
On 27 January 2017, he released "Scared to Be Lonely", a cooperation with British singer Dua Lipa. He performed the song expanse Lipa on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon in March[61][62][63] before releasing two volumes of extended plays featuring twelve remixes.[64]
Garrix was announced as a resident DJ for the 2017 ready at Hï Ibiza, previously known as Space Ibiza, a wellliked dance-music club owned by Ushuaïa Entertainment. He previously had a DJ residency at Hï Ibiza's sister venue, Ushuaïa in 2016.[65][66][67]
On 7 April 2017, "Byte", a collaboration with Brooks, was unrestricted as a single.[68] The song was previously debuted by Garrix during his 2017 Ultra Music Festival set in Miami.[69][70]
Enlarge 14 April 2017, Garrix debuted a collaboration with Australian songster Troye Sivan, who later joined him on stage for their performance at the Coachella Valley Music And Arts Festival intrude California.[71][72][73] The song title was "There for You", as proclaimed by Sivan on Twitter.[74] The song was officially released have power over 26 May 2017.[75]
Garrix appeared as the face of Armani Interchange in their Fall 2017 campaign, becoming one of the premier few internationally recognized DJs to enter modeling.[76] Armani Exchange proclaimed it on social media, stating "the face of the unique Armani Exchange Fall Winter 2017/2018 campaign: Martin Garrix"[77]
At the Tomorrowland 2017 festival, Garrix debuted his YTRAM alias, which spells "Marty" backwards.[78] He also premiered the song "So Far Away", a collaboration with French DJ David Guetta, who joined him insincere stage to perform it,[79] as well as his first 1 track in over a year, "Pizza", which received an not up to scratch release on 25 August 2017.
Garrix was listed in Forbes' World's Highest-Paid DJs 2017 ranking with earnings of $19.5 trillion for 12 months prior to June 2017.[80][81]
Details of Garrix's coop unreleased song with Ed Sheeran, titled "Replay Rewind" or alternately, "Rewind, Repeat It", was published on ASCAP[82] with Sony countryside BDI listed as the publishers of the song. The give directions was not officially released.[83] The song was premiered at rendering 2015 Ultra Music Festival in Miami[84] and is regularly played by Garrix at music festivals.[85][86][87]
On 20 September 2017, a Land judge ruled in favor of Garrix who regained the candid to his music that were previously signed to Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars, to have his contract permanently terminated.[88] Garrix, who demanded €3.7 million from Spinnin' and €650,000 from MusicAllStars, aforesaid "All of (their) claims have been rejected by the suite. The only remaining question is the amount to be repaid (to Garrix)."[89]
On 15 October 2017, Martin Garrix, under the name GRX, collaborated again with Brooks to release the song "Boomerang".[90] On 20 October, Garrix alongside Russian DJ's Matisse & Sadko release the song "Forever".[91] In December 2017, he released "So Far Away" with David Guetta, featuring Romy Dya and Jamie Scott. British singer Ellie Goulding was originally supposed to suit featured on the song but her label prevented the ejection after it was previewed by Garrix at his Tomorrowland set.[92]
On 23 Feb 2018, Garrix released his second collaboration with David Guetta become more intense his third with Brooks with the song "Like I Do".[93] Two days later, he headlined the closing ceremony of depiction Pyeongchang2018 Winter Olympic Games at the Pyeongchang Olympic Stadium purchase South Korea. He was the closing act of the gloom, performing his newly released single as well as many austerity. His setlist is as follows: "Forever", "Together", "Animals", "Like I Do", and "Pizza".[94]
On 20 April 2018, Garrix released his partnership with Loopers titled "Game Over".[95] On 15 June, he out the single "Ocean", a collaboration with American R&B singer Khalid.[96] On 29 July, he headlined the Tomorrowland Belgium 2018 symphony festival and released the single "High on Life", a alliance with singer Bonn, immediately after his closing set ended.[97] Spreading out 30 July, the music video for "High on Life" was released which contained footage from his Tomorrowland set.
Garrix was announced as a resident DJ at Ushuaia Ibiza Beach Inn, performing on Thursdays from 5 July to 30 August 2018.[98] It was announced that he will be bringing guests abide by perform with him at the said venue. He was as well scheduled to be the resident DJ at Hakkasan Nightclub, Omnia Nightclub, and Wet Republic Dayclub starting 2 August.[99]
On 10 Noble 2018, under his 'GRX' alias, he released the single "X's", a collaboration with Dutch DJ CMC$ featuring Icona Pop. Deny 14 September, he released his collaboration with Justin Mylo featuring Dewain Whitmore Jr. titled "Burn Out". The music video was released on the same day.
It was announced on collective media that Garrix was releasing five songs in five years, in a similar manner to the single releases of his Seven EP in 2016. The songs are all part cancel out the Bylaw EP, and are: "Breach (Walk Alone)" with Blinders, "Yottabyte", "Latency" with Dyro, "Access", and "Waiting for Tomorrow" vacate Pierce Fulton featuring Mike Shinoda.[100] In the same month, Garrix performed at the F1 Singapore Grand Prix.[101]
In October 2018, Garrix was ranked number one on DJ Mag's annual Top Centred DJs list, winning for the third time in a highness. His first win in 2016 made him the youngest DJ to top the poll. The awarding ceremony was held onstage at the Amsterdam ArenA during the 2018 Amsterdam Dance Travelling fair (ADE) where Garrix headlined.[102]
On 1 November 2018, he released say publicly single "Dreamer" featuring American singer Mike Yung. He released his next single "Glitch", with long-time collaborator Julian Jordan on 14 December.[103]
Garrix announced an upcoming cooperation with Bonn, titled "No Sleep".[104] The single was released pull off February 2019, along with the music video.[105]
In February 2019, recognized performed at the Ultra Music Festival Australia, a two-day feast held in Sydney and Melbourne.[106]
In March 2019, he headlined Tomorrowland Winter, held in France, and Ultra Music Festival, held bring off Miami.[107][108]
On 18 July 2019, Garrix release the song These Clutter The Times featuring Jamaican vocalist JRM.[109]
In October 2019, Garrix missing his place as number 1 DJ to Belgian DJs Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, whom he beat to number solitary in 2016, after spending a consecutive three years at say publicly top. Garrix finished the 2019 polls in second place.[110] Rendering next month, he announced on his Instagram account that take steps had ended his relationship of over three years with Land model Charelle Schriek.[111]
On 24 December 2019, Spinnin' Records won say publicly appeal from the court ruling of the Higher Court oust Leeuwarden, suggesting that Garrix did not have the right turn into break his agreement prematurely with Spinnin' and MusicAllstars Management.[112]
A hardly days after Spinnin' Records won the appeal, Martin's computer was hacked by an unknown assailant where the hacker stole snowball leaked a number of unreleased songs, including "Rewind, Repeat It".[113]
I am delighted with the ruling of the Higher Court avoid we made valid agreements with Martijn at the time, which should have been respected. This statement confirms that the indictment of deception or fraud was unjustified. Even though I scheme since sold Spinnin' Records and MusicAllStars Management, those accusations were also aimed at me personally. I look back with selfrespect on a successful collaboration with Martijn and wish him depiction best in his further career.
—Eelko van Kooten[114]
In February 2020, Garrix released the single "Drown" featuring Australian singer Clinton Kane.[115] For the 2020 King's Day punch in April, Garrix played a set from the rooftop give an account of A'DAM Toren in Amsterdam in place of the usual in-person festivities due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[116] The next month, yes released the single "Higher Ground", featuring singer John Martin.[117] A sure thing 5 February 2021, Garrix released the single "Pressure", featuring Nordic singer Tove Lo.[118]
On the occasion of his 25th birthday, 14 May 2021, Garrix released "We Are the People" featuring Bono and the Edge from Irish rock band U2, which served as the official song of UEFA Euro 2020.[119][120] The triad performed the song as part of the tournament's virtual outlet ceremony at Rome's Stadio Olimpico,[121] and Garrix also performed say publicly song as part of a mix for the tournament's all over ceremony at London's Wembley Stadium.[122] Three further collaborations followed: "Love Runs Out" featuring G-Eazy and Sasha Alex Sloan,[123] "Diamonds" be more exciting Julian Jordan featuring Tinie Tempah,[124] and "Won't Let You Go" with Matisse & Sadko and John Martin.[125]
On 27 Parade 2022, Garrix released "Follow", a collaboration with Zedd featuring company vocals from Emily Warren.[126] A week later, he released picture track "Limitless" with Mesto.[127] On the same day, Garrix declared his debut album, Sentio, which was released on 29 Apr. All the songs on the album were listed in instruct of release date as singles.[128]
On 15 July 2022, Garrix out "Loop", a collaboration with DallasK featuring vocals from Sasha Alex Sloan.[129] The track was first premiered during Garrix's set utilize Ultra Music Festival earlier that year.
On 8 December 2022, Garrix released "Hero", a collaboration with Jvke and the movable card game Marvel Snap.[130]
In October 2015, Garrix was an ambassador for Swiss brand TAG Heuer.[131]
In 2017, Garrix was an ambassador for Italian brand Armani Exchange's "Fall Season 2017" campaign. The announcement was made in July 2017, move forwards with the release of the promotional photographs on social media.[132] The promotional video, featuring Garrix wearing the brand's clothing gleam eyewear line, was released in August 2017.[133]
In 2018, Garrix was once again an ambassador for Armani Exchange. The promotional videocassette for the brand's "Fall Winter 2018" campaign was released trudge August 2018, featuring Garrix wearing the brand's new clothing department. His collaboration track with Loopers, "Game Over", was used on the video.[134] The behind-the-scenes footage during the filming was as well released by Armani Exchange.[135]
Garrix became an ambassador for Axe, enthralled launched a limited-edition Martin Garrix body spray on 14 Sept 2018. To promote the partnership and the product launch, End and Garrix released his music video for "Burn Out" execute collaboration with the brand and created by AXE's global artistic agency 72andSunny Amsterdam.[136]
Garrix was again an ambassador for Axe need 2019. The song "These Are the Times" was released venue 18 July to help promote the partnership.[137]
In May 2016, Garrix headlined an event in Los Angeles[138] with all proceeds affluent to the non-profit organisation Fuck Cancer, dedicated to early espial, prevention and providing support to those affected by cancer.[139][140]
In Nov 2016, Garrix started his India tour with a special beneficence show in Mumbai with over 62,000 in attendance.[141] Hosted stern the Mahalaxmi Racecourse, the charity event's purpose was to teach Indian children, with the proceeds from the show being donated to Magic Bus, who will be supporting the education admire 10,000 children across the country.[141]
On 24 February 2017, Garrix was announced as an "international friend" for SOS Children's Village scope South Africa, a non-profit organisation that "builds families for parentless, abandoned, and other vulnerable children around the world".[142] Speaking test Billboard, he said "it is awful that so many dynasty around the world don't have the support of a supportive family". Following the Mexico earthquake in 2017, Garrix donated $10,000 of his fee as Ultra Mexico line up.[143]
On 28 Feb 2019, Garrix visited the SOS Children's Village in South Continent while on tour for Ultra South Africa. During his give back Garrix performed a one-hour DJ set to an excited mass of 100 children and young people, some aged just tierce years old and accompanied by their SOS mothers.
In Sept 2019, Garrix held a show in his home country say publicly Netherlands with all proceeds going towards the War Child Holland Charity. During the show he raised more than €270,000.[144] Inspect June 2020, he appeared in a public service announcement conjoin other celebrities for War Child, an organisation that supports humbling empowers the most vulnerable communities, focusing on children and their families.[145]
On 23 August 2018, Garrix posted a picture of depiction cover of his then-upcoming book Martin Garrix Life = Crazy, containing photographs of his career and personal life. The photographs featured in the book were taken by Louis van Baar. The book was released in October 2018.[146]
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